Many on Twitter have demanded boycott of IndiGo, say airline has hurt sentiments of Hindus and Sikhs by not providing other meat options.

New Delhi: Low-cost airline IndiGo, facing a crisis due to intensifying differences between its co-founders, is now mired in another controversy over the meat it serves on its flights.

A Twitter campaign was initiated earlier this week, calling for boycott of IndiGo for serving halal meat on flights.

The menu of IndiGo airline says, “All the non-vegetarian snacks are certified halal on all flights.” The airline has been serving halal meat for a long time now, but it became an issue for some passengers only now.

Many Twitter users said IndiGo has hurt the sentiments of Hindus and Sikhs by serving halal meat and not providing them with other meat options.

‘Halal meat is anathema to Sikhs & Hindus’

One of the tweets said, “Stop serving #Halal food. Else, you will face boycott from Hindus. I am a regular passenger of #Indigo. But now I am seriously re-thinking.”

Yet another tweet tagging Minister of State for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri said, “Sir do you as a minister support this imposition on the right of Sikh and Hindu non-vegetarians? How can they be forced to eat such meat?”

@HardeepSPuri Sir do you as a minister support this imposition on the right of Sikh and Hindu non-vegetarians? How can they be forced to eat such meats?

ThePrint contacted IndiGo, SpiceJet, Vistara and GoAir, but all of them refused to comment.

Sudhakara Reddy, President of Air passengers Association, said, “I think halal doesn’t hurt the sentiments of the people as it only facilitates Muslims to have meat products at any place let alone airlines.”

14 COMMENTS

We are living in a world of “one sided” double standards. Painful death in Halal is constitutional but bull fight is crime. Love dogs but eat cow/goat/sheep. Courts kicking ass of Hindus/Sikhs/Jains on religious issues but rejecting pleas of Muslim women to enter mosque.

“Tum log hindu muslim me hi atke raho aur kabhi khane ko nahi mila hai kya…” I mean seriously there are other serious national problems including safeguarding our environment, justice for rape victims, eradication of child labor and so many but this is the reason our country will never be considered as developed because of such small thinking.

Airlines must provide non-halal meat option to non-vegeterians especially those who don’t want the animals to be killed as per Halal process which is brutal and barbaric to say the least!
(Animal’s jugular vein is cut and they bleed to death!)

Seriously .. .yes please boycott … Or better still boycott meat totally if you like

But consider this … It is probably way less barbaric than making someone chant jai shree ram … Herein you are forcing

With meat you may choose to not eat atleast .
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And just so you know … It is not compulsory for a muslim to necessarily have non veg to be a good Muslim… Let alone having it on a flight …
So please go ahead… Waste your time and energy on getting jhatka non veg for everone…
Muslims will just shift to vegetarian menu.. no fuss…
Also in the meantime..read the medical implications of halal and jhatka
Take care bro
Cheers

This is just a communal campaign. In gulf countries ,one gets only Halal meat and food without exception. Millions of Hindus live in the gulf countries and has no problem. In Hindu or Sikh scriptures it is not prescribed what type of slaughtered meat has to be eaten. So for them it is irrelevant if the meat is halal or otherwise.

Oh really… the world has always kowtow and listen to u muslims all the time but u will not respect the preference of others. Now why cant the Gulf Muslim countries also show secularism towards the millions of non Muslims living there by offering them non halal meat. Only Muslims are human beings or what?

We hindus respects cow as our mother and our scriptures also mentioned about it. Killing a cow treated as a unpardonable crome in our religion. Then as per your argument why muslims are adament to killing cow for eating ??

Mr nandkishor
No one is adamant on eating cow…
We can be perfect muslims without eating cow … On any non veg for that matter…
Unfortunately for hindu sentiments (and muslims indirectly) india is the top beef exporter …
Our hindu brothers own companies which kill … Process .. pack our cows … And send them for consumption … In India and abroad …
So please dont put it on muslims …